Re: OT one piece of heavy equipment to make a livi

Posted by NC Wayne on April 29, 2005 at 23:26:42 from (205.188.117.74):

In Reply to: OT one piece of heavy equipment to make a living posted by flyingvranch on April 29, 2005 at 14:07:24:

Working as a mechanic in the heavy equipment I can tell you from looking at our typical customers that the piece of equipment you get all depends on what you want to do. We've got a customer that does nothing but run the sewer lines for new houses and tie them into the city system. He has one newer model 555 backhoe but wishes he had his older 555 back which got stolen a few years back. He said the older model was alot smoother than the newer one and working close to newly installed power lines, phone lines, etc the smoother and more precise the better. Another customer has a CAT 953 loader with a 4-n-1 bucket that he uses mainly for small clearing jobs. His brother has his own company also and he has an older 450 Deere that he uses for the same type things. The one with the 450 also has a older 555 that he uses for things like removing old heating oil tanks for people, etc.and being brothers they often share equipment if the other needs something. If you have a way to burn waste oil this is something really great to get into. We burn it in our shop so he recently brought us enough good kerosene he had taken out of a tank, prior to diging it up, to last us for several years. If your wanting to take on smaller jobs then a medium sized skid steer with attachments like many of the other posts suggest is a good way to go. Another big thing in many parts of the country is portable concrete pumps. With no room between houses to put a truck in most neighborhoods a small portable unit that can be rented for a fair price, instead of paying an arm and a leg for one of the boom type trucks, is a hot comodity. Basically it all depends on what you want to do and what the market will support as to what equipent your gonna need. In my observations though a loader with a 4-n-1, a decent size backhoe, or a skid steer, or a combination of any of the three to give you a little more versatility right fro the start is the way to go. Just make sure you have really good liability insurance. In the case of someone the sewer line guy if he should happen to severe a fiber optic phone line, hit a main electric line, etc the cost of a repair like that could run into some serious money that could put a small man out of business if you weren't covered. Just something to think on. Hope this helps.

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